Just Some Mel Blanc Facts:According to his son Noel Blanc, of all the cartoon characters he voiced,the one that was the closest to his actual voice was "Sylvester the Cat",only without the lisp.

Nickname - The Man of a Thousand Voices

Blanc said his most challenging job was voicing Yosemite Sam;it was rough on the throat because of Sam’s sheer volume

Blanc legally changed his last name from Blank to Blanc because ofa nasty school teacher who used to make fun of it.Shortly before his death, executives of Time-Warner (owners of Warner Bros.)asked him if there was anything, literally anything, that they could give him tothank him for his life's body of work. He asked for, and received, a Ford Edsel.

In high school, he used to laugh down the hall and hear the echo coming,"you know. . . . So that's the Woody Woodpecker laugh," he once told an interviewer.

One of Blanc's favored charities was the Shrine Hospital Children's Burn Centerwhere the family asks contributions in his name.

While in a coma after a cataclysmic automobile accident, doctorsunsuccessfully tried to get Mel to talk. Finally, a doctor, who was also a fanof his cartoon characters, asked Mel, "Bugs? Bugs Bunny? Are you there?".Mel responded, in Bugs Bunny's voice, "What's up, Doc?"After talking with several other "characters",the doctors eventually led Mel out of his coma.

Epitaph on headstone at his burial site inHollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood reads,"That's All Folks"

I remember cutting this pic out of a magazine whenI was a kid and hanging on my wall

Hi, Jen. Those of us who are really old ... really, really old ... remember Mel Blanc on the Jack Benny Show. Every year on his Christmas show, Mel played a sales clerk at Macy's, and Jack would drive him nuts changing his mind. It was the funniest stuff on television. Here's the clip where Jack drives Mel to suicide.